Italy - IOM Director General William Lacy Swing met with Pope Francis on Monday (14/10) in Rome. The 20-minute meeting focused on the latest developments concerning migration worldwide and in particular the tragic events that took place in Lampedusa and Malta during the past week.Read more<
The United Nations (UN) High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (HLD), convened on October 3 and 4 as a special session of the UN General Assembly, marked only the second time in history that the UN has dedicated a major meeting solely to international migration. While hopes were high for the HLD, expectations were low. Until 2006, when the first HLD took place, migration had always been a contentious subject in the UN context — pitting the global North against the global South and receiving countries versus origin countries.Read more<
This week, on the heels of its annual meeting, the U.N. General Assembly will convene the Second High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development.
Both meetings focus in large part on the post-2015 development agenda — the global development blueprint that will follow the soon-to-expire Millennium Development Goals.Read more<
GENEVA, 04 October 2013 (ICMC) --Thousands of people have died in their attempt to reach Europe. Yesterday again some 130 men, women and children drowned at just 1 km of the European coast with over 200 still missing: a shock for all; the end of their lives and the despair of their families. Yet not the end of the attempts for so many others to gain a better future.Read more<
The new issue of Migration Policy Practice focuses on the upcoming UN High-level Dialogue (HLD) on Migration and Development. For only the second time in its history, the UN General Assembly will focus on international migration and its implications for development. As UN Special Representative for Migration, Peter Sutherland, noted in the previous issue of Migration Policy Practice, the summit in New York must generate action and deepen cooperation between States to maximize the benefits of migration for development. The HLD also provides the international community with an opportunity to underline the importance of integrating migration into the emerging post-2015 development framework.Read more<
GENEVA, 26 September 2013 (ICMC) -- Having worked the past six months as coordinator of civil society in the United Nations’ High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development<, ICMC next week will join hundreds of peers in talks with governments to better integrate migration into the post-2015 development agenda, promote the rights of migrants and labour mobility, and build partnerships to sustain this change.Read more<
Our societies are experiencing, in an unprecedented way, processes of mutual interdependence and interaction on the global level. While not lacking problematic or negative elements, these processes are aimed at improving the living conditions of the human family, not only economically, but politically and culturally as well. Each individual is a part of humanity and, with the entire family of peoples, shares the hope of a better future. This consideration inspired the theme I have chosen for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees this year: Migrants and Refugees: Towards a Better World.Read more<
New York, 11 September—There are as many international migrants born in the South living in other countries in the South as in countries in the North, reflecting changing patterns of Asian migration, but globally the United States remains the most popular destination, according to new data presented by the United Nations today.
More people than ever are living abroad. In 2013, 232 million people, or 3.2 per cent of the world’s population, were international migrants, compared with 175 million in 2000 and 154 million in 1990.Read more<
LONDON – Headlines about migration can seem unbearably stark: attacks on foreigners by neo-fascists in Greece, dozens of domestic workers on death row in the Gulf, a crass and callous campaign by the British government to drive out migrants. Yet, despite persistent and even rising anti-immigrant sentiment in much of the world, promising signs of a more enlightened approach to migration are emerging.Read more<
United Nations, New York, 30 July 2013. For only the second time in history, the UN General Assembly brought civil society leaders and networks from around the world to New York on 15 July to present their experience and recommendations to governments in Interactive Hearings regarding international migration and development. More than 300 representatives of grass roots, regional and international civil society organizationsRead more<
GENEVA, 4 July 2011—The International Catholic Migration Commission is pleased to welcome Ms. Wies Maas, Senior Programme Officer, and Mr. Andrés Morales, GFMD Programme Officer, to its Geneva headquarters, in support of Civil Society activities related to the 2011 Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD).Read more<
TURKEY, 20 June 2011—Rarely able to travel far beyond their host city of Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, nearly 200 refugees relished the opportunity to gather at the 26th of August Natural Park for a festive day of food, games and children’s crafts some 20 kilometers outside of the town centre, in celebration of World Refugee Day.Read more<
BRUSSELS, 7 June 2011—Joined by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International Catholic Migration Commission launched today a new handbook for policy makers and local practitioners working in the area of refugee reception and integration.Read more<
GENEVA, 6 June 2011—Ethiopian Bishops’ Conference Secretary General and ICMC member, Abba Hagos Hayish, made a plea to governments, international organizations and civil society representatives gathered at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, calling for action on behalf of the hundreds of migrants kidnapped and held hostage for ransom in the Sinai desert.Read more<
GENEVA, 5 June 2011—Sixty years ago today, in times of epic post-war displacement and emigration from Europe to the Americas, lay people and clergy from Italy, Germany and the United States joined the future Pope Paul VI and Cardinal Joseph Frings of Germany in calling for the creation of a new, international Catholic commission to support refugees and migrants ‘with special care and unremitting aid’.Read more<
GENEVA, 19 May 2011—Testimony to the importance of consolidated cooperation on migration issues, Pope Benedict XVI has nominated ICMC Secretary General, Johan Ketelers, as a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People.Read more<
Amid the resurgence of boat arrivals of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers to some of the European Union’s (EU) Mediterranean shores, discussions on appropriate responses and levels of responsibility amongst EU Member States have risen to unprecedented levels.Read more<
GENEVA, 27 April 2011⎯Under a new format intended to boost interaction with States and drive action on issues that affect the world’s 215 million international migrants, their families, and countries to and from which they migrate, ICMC has accepted the invitation to organize civil society activities connected to this year’s Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD).Read more<
BRUSSELS, 6 April 2011—Amid news of the arrivals and disappearances of boats carrying people fleeing from continuing turmoil in Libya, and with thousands of others still seeking safety within the North African region, NGOs have issued a joint statement calling for action and cooperation anchored in the core values of the Union that is solidarity, humanity and respect for human rights.Read more<
WASHINGTON, 25 March 2011—More than one year after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, unaccompanied Haitian children with especially complex situations remain ‘in limbo’ in shelters in the Dominican Republic (DR), awaiting decisions on their best long term interests for the future.Read more<
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